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Died. Harold Edmund Stearns, 52, author, journalist, drinker, the '20s senior American in Paris; of cancer; in Hempstead...
...hard time finding him. A conscientious, hard working civil servant, adept at answering letters, his days are busy with matters of state (e.g., settling claims for a recent orphanage fire). He passes as few nights as possible with the metropolitan arty crowd; among them he is a good drinker, poor conversationalist. He prefers the talk at the tough bars and quayside pubs...
First Blood. In June of 1918, 14 months after the U.S. entered World War I, Terry Allen was a captain, a passionate and accomplished poloist, a drinker and bachelor of considerable renown, a cavalryman without a war where horses were required. In that month he went to France, where he soon got his first infantry command. At a school for infantry officers in France. Allen arrived the day before a class was to graduate. He lined up with that class. Said the commandant, passing out certificates: "I don't remember you in this class...
...Gypsies. Says Johnny: "To the Department of Welfare, I may not be no king and to the King of England, I may not be no king, but to those poor, persecuted gypsies that I run myself knock-kneed looking after their personal welfare, I am king." A gin drinker, Johnny mixes it with Pepsi-Cola, calls it old popskull, consumes five quarts of gin a week. Johnny believes there are but two kinds of merchandise: "lost and unlost. Anything that ain't nailed down is lost." Johnny gets easily worked up over the idea of a job. "I despise...
...brew-a minor-league drinker...